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So where's that iMac with the multi-touch gesture capable IPS display again? Looking, looking...

What's that you say? Such a product has never existed? Apple has never made a touch screen iMac? Oh dear.

What's that you say? HP introduced their first TouchSmart system featuring a polished aluminum housing with integrated display and touch screen on JANUARY 7, 2007, putting them only 8 months ahead of Apple's release? (IQ770. Look it up, kids.)

CURSE YOU, FACTS!


This is about trade dress, not features. Multi-touch and IPS are irrelevant.

And the IQ770 looks like a hideous product Apple would never, ever make: http://www.strongengineering.com/images/products/detail/hp40...


Oh my god, that's a real picture.

When I pulled it up, I figured it was one of those "Here's the kind of thing PC maker build" pictures, where a bunch of irrelevant things are put on because people might want them. It had to be a joke image.

Nope. It's on Amazon[1]. Their picture looks a tad better though. Were there any industrial designers on that project?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/HP-TouchSmart-IQ770-Processor-SuperMul...


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